Need Dog Advice

[Meatcutter]

Every puppy, that has ever been born, of every breed...has been born with the natural intuition to bite.

How old is she?

Has she ever been taught against that intuition?

Do you believe that if you teach her that biting is wrong, that she'll understand that?


I have been around thousands of dogs, in thousands of circumstances, of a LOT of breeds. I have trained dogs to do a lot of things and I can make them understand a lot of things. I've had dogs that I swear had a 20 word vocabulary. And the only constant I have found in dogs is that they are all different.

Some just need to be shown right, some need to be taught a set of rules and commands, some are just gonna be what they are out of stupidity or hard headedness, or whatever.

No one knows your dog like you. Maybe you need to be a better trainer, maybe she isn't going to listen anyway, or maybe she just doesn't know.

I've got a dog sleeping at my feet right now that I can't stand. I won't let the neighbor kids in the yard with him. But I know without any doubt I can let my son play in the back yard with him.....pull on his ears....poke him in the eyes...or do anything imaginable and he will roll over and wag that tail. You let another adult in that yard if I or the wife isn't out there and it's church.

I havn't cracked the full code on him, but I love that he's here when I'm not. And it's on ME to get him ready for company, or keep him away from it.



I hear a lot of generalizations about dogs, and I believed a lot of them until I met this dude. I KNOW he's smart, I really do. But he's got his own set of rules that I havn't gotten all the way through yet. He protects my family, but I'm convinced that he thinks if I'm not there, that it's on him to protect my son. He's got to learn to read off of me who's cool and who aint, and I know he will. But man it's maddening to get there.

Here, Here.. opinions are like A**H****, everybody has one! Putting him to sleep is a disgrace! And you should NEVER own a dog again!!

[bullets13]

We have a mutt that has a lot of anxiety issues. We got her DNA tested this year, and although she doesn't look it, her biggest DNA contributor is weim. Not sure if it's something with that breed, but I've been around some strange ones. She's never bitten anyone, but she definitely is fearful aggressive to men that she doesn't know when they walk into the house (lots of barking, teeth snapping, hackles raised). She's great with our family, and I'm not the least bit nervous with her, but she and my other older female have gotten into several fights in the last year to the point where we have to keep them separated at all times. It's a pain in the butt, but we've had her for several years, and at this point she's part of the family. If she bit someone unprovoked I'm afraid I would have to put her down, but we go to great lengths to avoid situations where that could happen. She's put up when people first get to the house, and despite living in the country we have a fence to keep her from roaming and getting into trouble. Despite the inconvenience, she's our responsibility. The same can be said for your dog. If she's part of the family and you can't bear to lose her, then you have to take the steps to keep everyone else safe from her. I'm not a fan of penning a dog, but she certainly needs to be contained to a yard. Anyone that comes over needs to be protected from her. You can't give her away in good conscious (IMO), because she's liable to do it again to someone else.